DGAP-Adhoc: Roth & Rau AG: Earnings performance in current 2010 financial year negatively affected by write-downs

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Roth & Rau AG  / Key word(s): Profit Warning

28.12.2010 12:40

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Roth & Rau AG: Earnings performance in current 2010 financial year
negatively affected by write-downs

Hohenstein-Ernstthal, 28 December 2010 - Given the surprise announcement by
SpectraWatt Inc., a US solar cell manufacturer and customer of Roth & Rau
AG, that it presumably will discontinue trading, for economic reasons, in
the first quarter of 2011, and the resultant risk of insolvency on the part
of SpectraWatt, Roth & Rau AG expects to have to post write-downs of
approximately EUR 12.5 million as of 31 December 2010. In view of this
circumstance, the company will be unable to meet the level of sales and
earnings it has forecast for the 2010 financial year as a whole. The
Management Board will publish an adjusted forecast following further
analysis.

Contact:
Roth & Rau AG
Prof. Dr. Silvia Roth 
Tel.: +49 (0) 174/3439343 or +49 (0) 174/3439340
E-Mail: investor@roth-rau.de 

Haubrok Investor Relations GmbH
Simone Cujai
Tel.: +49 (0) 211/17183537
E-Mail: s.cujai@haubrok.de


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Language:     English
Company:      Roth & Rau AG
              An der Baumschule 6-8
              09337 Hohenstein-Ernstthal
              Deutschland
Phone:        03723 6685-0
Fax:          03723 6685-100
E-mail:       info@roth-rau.de
Internet:     www.roth-rau.de
ISIN:         DE000A0JCZ51
WKN:          A0JCZ5
Indices:      TecDAX
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart
 
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